Automatic Links for a Web of Text
summary
Argues that hyperlinks become part of the text itself and demonstrates dynamic links that the browser plus search engines and web archives can assemble to add citations, community comments, and automatic encyclopedic references. Describes prototypes run on Amazon infrastructure that rebuild linked context for the top 5 million pages, gluing NLP, CMS hooks, web-archive lookups and search logs. Claims these systems are practical today, showable as working demos, and already exist in partial form inside search engines and specialized reading platforms.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:03What is text really
- 8:51Early text and scripts
- 13:36Evolution of text layout
- 21:27Text as user interface
- 26:11Text metadata and APIs
- 29:52Text in the last century
- 31:44The web as a text revolution
- 34:11Missing links and search engines
- 37:44Future of intelligent text
